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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alexandre Daniel Mendonça Faria da Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Alexandre

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B814-2F29-B232
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7155-6207

Email addresses

  • alexandre.silva@fisica.uminho.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/05/18 - Current Functional and smart materials and surfaces for advanced applications
UIDB/04650/2020
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT

Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
Concluded
2023/02/01 - 2027/02/01 Emergence of novel properties at the interfaces in oxide heterostructures and superlattices
2022.13796.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/11/16 - 2021/09/16 Atrito-0 - A sinergia entre texturização e revestimentos auto-lubrificantes para contactos mecânicos energeticamente mais eficientes e amigos do ambiente
014/ECUM/CFUM/2021
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/02/03 - 2020/06/03 SATRAP - Desenvolvimento racional de redes auto-organizadas para aplicações de elétrodos transparentes
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028108
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Alexandre Daniel Mendonça Faria da Silva; Lenzi, Veniero; Luís Silvino Alves Marques; Cavaleiro, Albano; Carvalho, Sandra. "A machine learning application for the tribological behaviour of micro-textured surfaces". Paper presented in EUROPEAN CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES - EUROMAT 2021, 2021.
  2. Luís Silvino Alves Marques; Alexandre Daniel Mendonça Faria da Silva. Corresponding author: Luís Silvino Alves Marques. "OpenGPS: An OpenFOAM solver for simulation of low temperature plasmas.". Paper presented in APS Annual Gaseous Electronics Meeting Abstracts, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Alexandre Silva; Veniero Lenzi; Sergey Pyrlin; Sandra Carvalho; Albano Cavaleiro; Luís Marques. "Deep Learning Approach to the Texture Optimization Problem for Friction Control in Lubricated Contacts". Physical Review Applied (2023): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.054078.
    10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.054078
  2. Anna P. S. Crema; Marian C. Istrate; Alexandre Silva; Veniero Lenzi; Leonardo Domingues; Megan O. Hill; Valentin S. Teodorescu; et al. "Ferroelectric Orthorhombic ZrO 2 Thin Films Achieved Through Nanosecond Laser Annealing". Advanced Science (2023): 2207390-2207390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202207390.
    10.1002/advs.202207390
  3. Alexandre Silva; Ignasi Fina; Florencio Sanchez; José Silva; L. Marques; Veniero Lenzi. "Unraveling the ferroelectric switching mechanisms in ferroelectric pure and La doped HfO2 epitaxial thin films". Materials Today Physics (2023): 101064-101064. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2023.101064.
    10.1016/j.mtphys.2023.101064
  4. Sergey Pyrlin; Veniero Lenzi; Alexandre Silva; Marta Ramos; L. Marques. "Adhesion of Bis-Salphen-Based Coordination Polymers to Graphene: Insights from Free Energy Perturbation Study". Polymers 14 21 (2022): 4525-4525. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14214525.
    10.3390/polym14214525
  5. Silva, Alexandre; Lenzi, Veniero; Luís Silvino Alves Marques; Pyrlin, Sergey. Corresponding author: Silva, Alexandre. "FELINE: Finite element solver for hydrodynamic lubrication problems using the inexact Newton method". Computer Physics Communications (2022): 108440-108440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108440.
    10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108440
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/03 Doping effect on the phase stability and ferroelectric properties in ZrO2 Doping effect on the phase stability and ferroelectric properties in ZrO2
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2024/07/16 Tuning of ferroelectric properties in doped ZrO2 XXXIX Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Física
Real Sociedad Española de Física (Sán Sebastian, Spain)
2024/06/15 Ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of doped ZrO2 European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectric 2024
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Trondheim, Norway)
2024/03/11 Phase stability and polarization in doped ZrO2 Novel High-k Application Workshop 2024 NaMLab
NaMLab (Dreseden, Germany)
2023/09/18 Influence of the parasitic m-phase and La doping on the polarization switching dynamcis of epitaxial HfO2 thin films 2023 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society
European Materials Research Society (Warsáw, Poland)
2023/05/10 Promising routes for achieving low coercive field in HfO2 thin films HIGH K WORKSHOP 2023
NaMLab (Dresden, Germany)
2022/07/22 A machine learning solution to the texture optimization problem Junior EUROMAT 2022
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
Distinctions

Award

2024 Best presentation of Ferroelectrics: from fundamental to applications (DFMC-GEFES) Symposium within the XXXIX BIENNIAL OF THE ROYAL SPANISH PHYSICS SOCIETY